How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arkansas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1967 / Served to 1980

Conley Byrd

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Conley Byrd was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2014
Tenure: 1967–1980 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Byrd authored 612 published opinions for the court (1967–1979), plus 130 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Caton v. State (76 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 639 of these were attributed to Byrd by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1972	Caton v. State· Dissent†	479 S.W.2d 537	76
1973	Stone v. State· Dissent†	498 S.W.2d 634	71
1970	Wawak v. Stewart· Dissent†	449 S.W.2d 922	68
1974	Kohlenberger, Inc. v. Tyson's Foods, Inc.· Dissent†	510 S.W.2d 555	66
1968	MFA Mutual Ins. Co. v. Wallace	431 S.W.2d 742	61
1977	Ward School Bus Manufacturing, Inc. v. Fowler· Dissent†	547 S.W.2d 394	53
1974	MacKey v. McDonald· Dissent†	504 S.W.2d 726	53
1979	Henderson v. Russell· Dissent†	589 S.W.2d 565	52
1978	Harkness v. State	572 S.W.2d 835	52
1971	Sweatt v. State· Concurrence†	473 S.W.2d 913	51
1971	Wenderoth v. City of Fort Smith· Dissent†	472 S.W.2d 74	50
1979	Harper v. Caskin	580 S.W.2d 176	49
1975	Williams v. Edmondson	520 S.W.2d 260	46
1979	Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Pulaski County Board of Equalization· Concurrence†	582 S.W.2d 942	45
1972	Wood v. Goodson	485 S.W.2d 213	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 770 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Conley Byrd on?: Conley Byrd was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

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13 years on the Supreme Court of Arkansas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).